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Tea with Mussolini
Tea with Mussolini
drama, comedy, military
1999
Italy, United Kingdom
Franco Dzeffirelli
117 min.
Cher, Judy Dench, Joan Plaraight
Florence, 1934. The ominous dictator Mussolini and his associates take power in Italy to their hands. But in the sun-flooded sun, sleepy Florence, everything goes the old way. A full, measured and moderate existence of an elderly lady from America and Britain, nicknamed the local wits `scorpions` leads here. Ladies spend days in secular conversations, leisurely tea parties and discussions of the undisputed advantages of their inimitable idol - Mussolini. But none of the Skorpionsh still suspects that very soon the idol will make their life in Italy unbearable, declare women dangerous and will send from the country ...